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No! 295,130. Patented Mar. 11, 1884.

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DANIEL G. NORRIS, 21), OF GLENS FALLS, NEYV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO JULIA NORRIS, OF SAME PLACE, AND GEORGE E. HORRIS, OF TROY, N. Y.

NECKBAND-SHAPlNG'DEVICE FOR BOSOM-BOARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,130, dated March 11, 1884;.

Application died June 20, 1883.

To (all whmn if may concern:

Be it known that 1, DANIEL G.None1s, 2d,

. of Glens Falls, county of Varreu, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful lmprovement in. Neckband-Shaping Devices for Bosom-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of devices used for shaping and distending the neckbands of shirts when being ironed; and the object of my invention is to better adapt such devices for the use designed.

In theaccompanying sheet of drawings, forming a part of this specification, there are shown two figures illustrating my invention, with the same designation of parts by letter-reference used in both.' I

Figure 1 shows a perspective of a device containing my invention. Fig. 2 shows another perspective of the same device with the parts turned over, to illustrate the under side of the same. r

The several parts of apparatus thus illustrated are designated by letter-reference, and their function explained as follows:

The letter S indicates a U -form spring, made of elastic sheet metal, having straight sides, on which the shaping contour of the neckband is made.

The letters 13" F indicate two plates of like form and size, which produce the divided bottom of the device. These plates on their interior edges are straight, and on their outer rounded sides and straight ends are attached to the bottom edge of the spring S, at right angles thereto, and arranged to subtend the bottom edge of the spring where attached at the sides and bent spring end of the latter, to form the flanges F' F Thespring thus made with the bend b, (the ends being turned inwardly from the sides, as indicated at a a,) and as combined with the bottom plates, exerts an elastic force to resist the forcing of the ends a a together, and it is this stored-up force, when released, that is used to distend and shape the neckband of the shirt when being ironed. \Vithin the spring S are two blocks, B B, and each one is separately attached to the bottom plates, F. These blocks are not hinged or pivoted, as in some older devices, and are merely used to sustain and support the parts and to furnish a means for securing the stored-up force of the spring S when the ends a. a are drawn in.

The letter P indicates a plate, whichat its end 19 is attached to one of the blocks B. The other end of this plate is slotted at 12 for the passage of the threaded stud m, and the latter is provided with a thumb-screw, A, which, when screwed down, engages with the plate I, to hold it, the attached blocks, and ends of the spring together against the recoil force of the latter. This arrangement of a plate and thumbscrew to hold the parts is an old device, and, apart from its position as afactor in combination, I makeno claim therefor. The flanges F F and the vertical sidesof the spring S form a right angle, and, with the flanges placed beneath the shirt-bosom where joining the neck band, an angular and positive edge is produced between the bosom and band when the iron is run therein, and a kind of laundry finish that is desirable is secured.

The letter S indicates an auxiliary spiral spring placed between the blocks," to co-operate in connection with the exterior spring, S, and it may be used, if desired, for that purpose, the said spiral spring as applied being the usual andordinary one used in hatters blocks; but by making the spring S of material having the necessary amount of elasticity, the spiral spring becomes superfluous.

The device thus illustrated and described is operated as follows: The ends of the spring S, as turned in and indicated at a a, are forced together against the elasticity of said spring, and thus held by means of the set-screw. The device is then placed within the neck-opening of the shirt, when the force of the spring is released by turning the set-screw, and the neck band, coming in contact with the vertical sides of the expanding and spreading spring, is

stretched out, distended, and shaped, while the flanges F beneath the bosom co-operate to produce at the union between the neokband and bosom a well-defined and angular line of finish, as thus held when being ironed.

As the spring so made, shaped, and combined with the bottom plates and flanges will perform the same office whether the set-screw is used or some other equivalent means, and

as the combined parts may be used by forcing inwardly the spring ends toward each other by the hand and holding them in thelatter position While being inserted in the neck-opening of the shirt, I do not limit my invention of the combined spring, flanges, and bottom plate to their combination with the set-screw.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a neckband-shaping device, the combination of the exterior U-form sheet-metal spring, S, the interior bottom plates, F F, the exterior bottom flanges, F F and the supporting-blocks B B, constructed and arranged to operate as shown and described.

2. In a neckband-shaping device, the combination of the exterior U-form sheet-metal spring, S, the interior bottom plates, F F, the exterior bottom flanges, F F, the interior sup- 2o porting-blocks, B B, and a slotted plate and set-screw to connect the blocks, in the manner and for the purposes set forth.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 16thday of June, 1883, in the presence of the two wit- 25 nesses.

DANIEL G; NORRIS, 21).

\Vitnesses:

G. PARISH Oennez, JAMES H. DAVIS. 

